Word Finder - compulsion

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An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.

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During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.

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The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.

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The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).

They were at first allowed religious freedom, but became Christians under compulsion in 1300.

Gebhard is chiefly noted for his conversion to the reformed doctrines, and for his marriage with Agnes, countess of Mansfeld, which was connected with this step. After living in concubinage with Agnes he decided, perhaps under compulsion, to marry her, doubtless intending at the same time to resign his see.

The essential thing was that a man should come to baptism of his own free will and not under compulsion or from hope of gain.

A natural compulsion is to wash your face frequently.

In the economic development of states taxes have come to be grouped in different ways, according to variations in the method of levying them or the means of enforcing compulsion or other differences.

Faith must be unconstrained and must be accepted without compulsion.

A compulsion to chew on ice cubes or to eat soil is also an indication of iron deficiency.

Service is nominally voluntary, though it appears that a certain amount of compulsion is exercised.

To this day the desire and compulsion to drink has left me.

Once an addiction has developed, the alcoholic is compelled to drink, and this compulsion often defies reason.

He is a beneficent and venerable old man of the sea, full of wisdom and skilled in prophecy, but, like Proteus, he will only reveal what he knows under compulsion.

He preferred that Englishmen should be free rather than sober by compulsion.

The Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade, sitting in 1909 to consider railway accounting forms, while recommending ton-miles to the careful consideration of those responsible for railway working in Great Britain, considered the question of their necessity in British practice to be still open, and held that, at all events, they should not be introduced under compulsion.

It is doubtless to be regarded as a revival of ancient habits of thought and feeling among a people who had adopted the Koran, not by affinity, but by compulsion.

The .Maccabaeans used compulsion in some cases, but Judaism in the Diaspora was a missionary religion in the less militant sense.

The remarkable instance of this after the Conquest was the election of Stephen, but William the Conqueror did not feel secure until he had the sanction of the Londoners to his kingship, and his attitude towards London when he hovered about the neighbourhood of the city for a time shows that he was anxious to obtain this sanction freely rather than by compulsion.

Since the authority of the League rested primarily on the moral support of its members, allied in common trade interests and acquiescing in the able leadership of Lubeck, its only means of compulsion was the "Verhansung," or exclusion of a recalcitrant town from the benefits of the trade privileges of the League.

To these purely economic difficulties was added the growing opposition of the population to the measures of compulsion.

Converted to Roman Catholicism under compulsion, these "New Christians" often continued to observe Jewish rites in their homes, as the Inquisition records attest.

The essence of the compulsion in the case of stamp duties is the invalidity of the documents in courts of law unless the stamp is affixed, besides liability to penalties for not affixing the proper stamps.

As resistance grew stronger in America, the king urged the use of compulsion.

Misled, however, into identifying it with magnetism, he imagined circulation in the solar system to be maintained through the material compulsion of fibrous emanations from the sun, carried round by his axial rotation.

The parties seemed to have changed when Averroism thus took the side of the church; but the change was probably due to compulsion.

The presentation of identic and collective notes to the Porte by the powers, in 1880, produced no result, and in 1882 it was apparent that Turkey would only yield to compulsion.

It was this compulsion that was like a drug weighing down her thoughts and making her hungry, like walking past a bakery first thing in the morning and trying not to look at what was in the window.

It was an incredibly rapid evolution, driven by avarice, compulsion, globalization, and changing societal values!

If a person become a musalman upon compulsion, and afterward apostatize, he is not to be put to death.

People with OCD carry out these types of compulsion in a desperate bid to calm the anxiety caused by their obsessions.

The quite high ' can't choose ' response may be a consequence of many respondents resisting the compulsion implied by the question.

I am conscious that we who oppose compulsion have a difficult job to do.

I feel no compulsion to try to refute my own findings.

There is a strong risk however that extending compulsion to the community setting will have the opposite effect.

Many would hesitate to introduce compulsion of this kind.

The A-Day pension rules from April this year removed the compulsion to buy an annuity at 75.

Crisps and beer, with an obsessive compulsion to climb hard every day.

I don't know, other than to say an inner compulsion of some sort.

It's a strange compulsion our nature gives to us.

We believe that if increased compulsion is necessary, the fairest way to achieve it would be through the state pension system.

There would be no element of legal compulsion, merely a strong moral case to improve the lot of others.

Most cycling campaign groups are also against helmet compulsion.

This group has a brief to design a practical model of pension compulsion for the UK rather than discuss its merits.

Finally, we would caution against wholesale employer compulsion given the potential negative impact that this may have on SMEs.

Myth one - Compulsion would be more expensive than voluntarism and would cost the exchequer lost revenue or cost jobs.

He becomes a lone gunslinger who is so blinded by his compulsion that it obscures any other motive for living.

Jesuit missionaries after the Reformation stirred up schisms in some parts of the Eastern Church, and in Austria, Poland and elsewhere large numbers of Orthodox Christians submitted, either willingly or under compulsion to the see of Rome (see Roman Catholic Church, section Uniat Oriental Churches).

The court represented that, as no compulsion was used, there was nothing illegal in this proceeding.

The Additional Forces Act, passed in the teeth of a strenuous opposition, introduced the principle of a modified system of compulsion to supplement the deficiencies of the army and reserve, while the navy was largely increased.

This is why it is important to know that someone with a compulsion disorder will always need to work on recovery.

Having a strong compulsion to drink and becoming irritable or downright volatile when drinking alcohol is another red flag.

The compulsion may be so great that resisting sleep intensifies and it may cause you to appear intoxicated.